Motivational Quotes

Honesty

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

- Kant, Immanuel

Best Quotes about Honesty

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Nouwen, Henri

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.

Proverb, French

No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

You can't make wrong work.

Waterhouse, Gerald

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Burns, Robert

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

Dodge, John F.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Kant, Immanuel

10.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

11.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Arthur C. Clarke

12.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

13.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Graham, Billy

14.

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

Marden, Orison Swett

15.

There are two great forces in this world -- good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he has lost and won battle for a principle.

Gouthey, A. P.

16.

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Marquis, Don

17.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

18.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Howard, Vernon

19.

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

Iacocca, Lee

20.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Hill, Napoleon

21.

Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

22.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.

Thomas Sowell

23.

No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

24.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

Cayce, Edgar

26.

Be prepared and be honest.

Wooden, John

27.

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Kin Hubbard

28.

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. [Leviticus 19:11]

Bible

29.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

Mcmahon, Ed

30.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Young, Brigham

31.

Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Buscaglia, Leo

33.

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

James, William

34.

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Sugarman, Joseph

35.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Dylan, Bob

36.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

37.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butler

38.

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.